Barriss Offee changes
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"ewok;14292" wrote:"Narcolipocus;14282" wrote:"ewok;14272" wrote:"Narcolipocus;14271" wrote:"Keaven;14261" wrote:"Narcolipocus;14140" wrote:The game is too young for some f2pers to understand whay you are saying dispite how 100% correct you are.
The refunds are being requested by people who bought Barriss with the assumption that she wouldn't be nerfed into oblivion. As she is currently it would require an incredible amount of money to make her viable again. When somebody pays 50 dollars for a character who is nerfed that heavily weeks after they paid a large amount of money to obtain her they are going to be angry. The refunds that are being given out are due to people buying the pack with the assumption that it would be a useful investment. Barriss was NOT op, she was simply better than the majority of the characters that newer players possessed. Once you get to a higher level and unlock more of the characters you realize that she is easily countered, and in many ways too limited to be viable in the top tiers of play.
Exactly, and unfortunately they don't want to spend the time and put out the effort to learn the game. They just want anything that causes difficulties for them to be changed. If that keeps happening then the game will become too simple to be interesting. The way the game is developing there are so many different ways to put a team together, but as they nerf more and more characters that is changing. Hopefully people will realize that they've only seen a fraction of what the game has to offer when it comes to strategy and team building. For example with Captain Phasma's ability you can put a lot of counter attacking toons together and absolutely destroy a team who is using a defensive strategy. However if you use Sidious, Vader, Old Ben, and Tarkin together that strategy can be thoroughly shut down. Kylo Ren would increase the effectiveness of that strat even more. There are a plethora of different strats that can be used and no character is safe from a counter. But until more people start to realize that the forums will be filled with people who complain about everything that beats them.
Yes we don't have the strats to win so we pay to win, oh wait, that's the barriss users LOL.
Some of the best characters in the game are easily unlocked for free. For example Darth Sidious, Luminara Unduli, Boba Fett, Fives, Ahsoka Tano, Asajj Ventress, Vader, and many more. Not to mention the fact that you can get four star characters from the free bronzium packs. It may be uncommon, but I've gotten four stars from packs before.
Currently I'm using Vader, Ahsoka, Sidious, Luminara, and the Jedi Consular. Those are all easy to unlock without paying anything. And the combination is fantastic due to the extra crit chance from Sidious along with the synergizing negative effects from both Sidious and Vader contributing to Culling blade being able to OHKO people. However without things aligning properly that doesn't happen. Once you find a team that works for you you'll end up realizing that the people who pay to play generally aren't getting that much of an advantage.
And Barriss could be countered by anyone who could stun, or apply ability block, if you hit her with Vader once per turn until she dies she can never use her heal. Saying that people didn't need to use strategy to win with Barriss is short sighted due to the fact that if you simply ignore her for the most part she ends up hurting the other team more than helping. And if you are able to hit her with Vader after you've unlocked him she is even more detrimental to the enemy team due to the drastic reduction in damage that you're forced to accept when you use her."Narcolipocus;14282" wrote:"ewok;14272" wrote:"Narcolipocus;14271" wrote:"Keaven;14261" wrote:"Narcolipocus;14140" wrote:The game is too young for some f2pers to understand whay you are saying dispite how 100% correct you are.
The refunds are being requested by people who bought Barriss with the assumption that she wouldn't be nerfed into oblivion. As she is currently it would require an incredible amount of money to make her viable again. When somebody pays 50 dollars for a character who is nerfed that heavily weeks after they paid a large amount of money to obtain her they are going to be angry. The refunds that are being given out are due to people buying the pack with the assumption that it would be a useful investment. Barriss was NOT op, she was simply better than the majority of the characters that newer players possessed. Once you get to a higher level and unlock more of the characters you realize that she is easily countered, and in many ways too limited to be viable in the top tiers of play.
Exactly, and unfortunately they don't want to spend the time and put out the effort to learn the game. They just want anything that causes difficulties for them to be changed. If that keeps happening then the game will become too simple to be interesting. The way the game is developing there are so many different ways to put a team together, but as they nerf more and more characters that is changing. Hopefully people will realize that they've only seen a fraction of what the game has to offer when it comes to strategy and team building. For example with Captain Phasma's ability you can put a lot of counter attacking toons together and absolutely destroy a team who is using a defensive strategy. However if you use Sidious, Vader, Old Ben, and Tarkin together that strategy can be thoroughly shut down. Kylo Ren would increase the effectiveness of that strat even more. There are a plethora of different strats that can be used and no character is safe from a counter. But until more people start to realize that the forums will be filled with people who complain about everything that beats them.
Yes we don't have the strats to win so we pay to win, oh wait, that's the barriss users LOL.
Some of the best characters in the game are easily unlocked for free. For example Darth Sidious, Luminara Unduli, Boba Fett, Fives, Ahsoka Tano, Asajj Ventress, Vader, and many more. Not to mention the fact that you can get four star characters from the free bronzium packs. It may be uncommon, but I've gotten four stars from packs before.
Currently I'm using Vader, Ahsoka, Sidious, Luminara, and the Jedi Consular. Those are all easy to unlock without paying anything. And the combination is fantastic due to the extra crit chance from Sidious along with the synergizing negative effects from both Sidious and Vader contributing to Culling blade being able to OHKO people. However without things aligning properly that doesn't happen. Once you find a team that works for you you'll end up realizing that the people who pay to play generally aren't getting that much of an advantage.
And Barriss could be countered by anyone who could stun, or apply ability block, if you hit her with Vader once per turn until she dies she can never use her heal. Saying that people didn't need to use strategy to win with Barriss is short sighted due to the fact that if you simply ignore her for the most part she ends up hurting the other team more than helping. And if you are able to hit her with Vader after you've unlocked him she is even more detrimental to the enemy team due to the drastic reduction in damage that you're forced to accept when you use her.
Except most f2p players dont have access to characters with the stun, our best option is to ability block with Luminara since she's one of the best f2p characters that's worth farming for. Daka's stun is way too inaccurate. If you think Barriss is detrimental then stop crying. You weren't going to use her anyways right? The trooper got a nerf too, troopers easily get taken out in one turn, but on offense they were great for me. Why arent you crying about him getting nerfed? People were complaining about him too, why woulod even buy barriss if she's so detrimental. All I hear are barriss users saying how horrible she is, but they use her LOL. Barriss was awful, so she got nerfed more, who cares then?
She didn't used to be detrimental. Before the nerf she was an exceptional healer. And she was invaluable in Galactic War. But after the nerf she is detrimental due to the reasons I listed above. I do agree that she was a bit over powered before. But they nerfed her way too much. EA does have a habit of this though. Battlefield 4 is a prime example of them going too far with nerfs.
